QA Manager – Food Manufacturing

Salary: £50k - £55k base salary + awesome employee benefits!

Location: Middlesbrough Hours: Monday–Thursday, 8:30am–5:00pm; Friday, 8:30am–4:00pm

The exciting part…

Are you an experienced QA Manager in food manufacturing? Are you keen to take ownership of the QA team, drive food safety and quality improvements, and play a key role in achieving and maintaining Grade AA BRCGS status? Are you keen to become part of a business with over 6,000 colleagues across 17 sites, offering the opportunity to develop your career within a diverse and established food manufacturing organisation.

The Role

Reporting to the Site Head of Technical, you’ll lead and develop the QA team, ensuring products and processes consistently meet food safety, legal, customer and quality standards.

You’ll coordinate audits, maintain audit readiness and support the achievement of Grade AA BRCGS status. You’ll manage non-conformances, customer complaints and corrective actions, drive improvements in good manufacturing practice (GMP), and work closely with production, technical and development teams to embed a strong quality culture.

This is an excellent opportunity to influence manufacturing standards, develop your team and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced food production environment.

About You

You’ll have proven technical experience in food manufacturing, ideally chilled food, previous team leadership experience and exposure to UK retailers.

Level 3 Food Safety and Hygiene, Level 3 HACCP, and hygiene and chemical awareness training are essential. You’ll also bring strong communication, organisational and problem-solving skills, alongside good Microsoft Excel and Word knowledge.

Apply Today

If you’re a QA Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Technical Manager, Quality Manager or Food Safety Manager ready for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

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